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I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
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Disgusted
Aged
Naked
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
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I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
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I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
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Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)
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The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.
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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.
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I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
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I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.
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happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
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At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.
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We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.
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